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Style is effectiveness of assertion.

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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

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Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

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The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

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The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

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The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

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And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

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When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

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Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

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If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.

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Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.

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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

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I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

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The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

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Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

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The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

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If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

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